Short Insisted Poems

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Persisted and Enlisted

Persisted and Enlisted

At first what we did was insisted,
And after that we had persisted,


Then into service finally enlisted.
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick


There Was a Strange Dame In Vancouver

There was a strange dame in Vancouver
who insisted on being a hoover.
She sucked in much dust
till her health went bust
and the council had to remove her.
Form: Limerick

Age Rage

Agnes McFearson was eighty-five
And insisted she should still drive.
She drove on the sidewalk
And for lights didn’t stop.
26 fellow citizens didn’t survive.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member When He Fell In Love

“When did you fall in love with me?” she asked
He smiled then affectionately insisted
“It’s when I saw within your eyes 
so many colors
I never knew existed”.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Life

LIFE

Oh Life
I gave my consent 
To be all that
You insisted I be
A script within
A script, I read my
Lines too softly
Afraid the words would despise 
Me...


Mother and the Day

You are a shadow 
That walks with me
I forget you	
That you are

Everyday everywhere
I am not insisted
To think of you
Though you are behind
And though I am forgotten

Premium Member Peachy Day On a Nude Beach

Don's girlfriend blushed the pink hue of a peach
But she kept her body beyond his reach
She firmly resisted
Until he insisted
"But that's why I brought you to a nude beach!"
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Fruit and Nuts

Grants gonads turned purple like plums To 'Doctor' Google he succumbs But his wife insisted His nuts may be twisted He’s praying an ambulance comes!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Polite Fight

Today, I got into a Polite Fight
Over the last Wonder Woman night-light
"Oh, its yours," I insisted,
She demurred, I resisted,
Until I gave in and let her be right!

4/8/18
Form: Limerick

Andies Baboon

Andie's Baboon crushed donuts everyday for goats. He insisted jokingly. Kim lost money
napping on pool Q's.  Resisting sever trouble using varnish, wine, x rays, yelling
ZOOOOOOM
© Eddee Shaz  Create an image from this poem.
Form: ABC

Premium Member Processing

Insisted 
tight-fisted
hard fisted, too.

Resistin' 
when necessary
or, hey, when not.

Assertions without backup facts
get votes.
Disappearance when overwhelmed
whole 'nother story.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member My Funny Valentine


Mike proposed on his bended knee, To marry him I can’t agree. NO! My arm won’t be twisted, As his ma had insisted, Our honeymoon’s her him and me!
Form: Limerick

Which One Is the Insister

She insisted on careless key twisting.
Now she's mad and locked out and it's misting.
And her sister's locked in...
Who's "in-sister" again,
If the "out-sister" did the insisting?
Form: Limerick

Bald Faced

Larry Higgs insisted on having a beard
although his wife said it made him look weird.
One day while using a lathe
he got too close by a shave.
Alas, he's uglier than she had feared.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Position Impossible - Bawdy Limerick

Aunt Ethel said to Uncle Fred Let’s attempt the starfish in bed Old Ethel insisted Till Fred’s back got twisted They best stick to sleeping instead! 05/30/21
Form: Limerick

Premium Member You Dirty Rat

"You dirty rat" is a phrase used continuously
by they who impersonate the late actor James Cagney,
but Mr Cagney has insisted repeatedly
that he never once used that phrase in any of his movies.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member he had expensive tastes

the cat was Rubenesque
He was rotund
He was round
He was stuck up
We thought he was hilarious
He had expensive tastes
Insisted on only the best treats and foods
His wives were not laughing
cat

Premium Member Evermore

Evermore was all I ever wanted.
All I ever wanted was you forever more.
But you insisted, “Less is more.”
Less is, more or less, all you ever gave me.
And all you ever gave me left me cold forever more.
Form: Verse

The Coach

The Coach 

By Elton Camp

The good coach was every boy’s friend		

He shows them how their time to spend		

He insisted they be clean				

Take showers I mean					

He joins them before they begin
© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Baby wanted a Pumpkin Tutu

Baby the ballerina insisted on wearing a pumpkin tutu
Actually, her mother did it, for she knew what to do
Grandma helped because she was a seamstress too
Audience was amazed because the pumpkin showed through.
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Chronicle a Freed Verse

CHRONICLR
a romantic
  advance
insisted
 .discerned
catalogued
  unstated

an elegant
  treatise
formal
& artificial
intricately
   disposed
in
a natural
circumstance
partial
& uncertain
smooth
uniform
& unconstrained

Premium Member Competitive Parents

baby elephant wanted to play
the soccer coach could not figure out a way
the girls insisted, and so he backed down a bit
baby elephant would not release the ball
which means the competitive parents all had a fit
coach took flack all that fall
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Limerick: Once a Prince From the Kingdom Toikey

Limerick:  Once a Prince from the Kingdom Toikey

Once a Prince from the Kingdom Toikey
Insisted on being wed by his turnkey
But his you may know not
Got stuck in a chamber pot
That’s how the Queen got wed by her lackey.

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A Perfect Morning

Brilliant you are she said.
Reflection smiled. Showing her girly.
I am serious she insisted.
The girl grinned widely at her.
A genius, I think.
Reflection was grinning wildly now.
What are you doing? Asked her sister.
Ruining a perfect morning.

Premium Member should they take the lights

Polar bear insisted on putting the string of lights up this year
After downing three cases of wine and a keg of not-so-light-beer
the other animals stood by, not terribly close, but rather near
Should they try to take the lights from bear? It was totally unclear
Form: Monorhyme

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